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Cheryl Wetzstein

cwetzstein@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.
Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.
Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.
She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures as she speaks during a ceremony in recognition of World AIDS Day, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Clinton: ‘We have to go where the virus is’


Global cooperation and funding in targeted areas to high-risk groups "where the virus is" can help bring the world closer to the goal of eliminating the scourge of AIDS, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday.

November 29, 2012
**FILE** Rep. Jackie Speier, California Democrat. (Associated Press)

Congress implored to denounce sexual-orientation therapy

In the latest attack on therapies aimed at helping gay patients who want to become heterosexual, a California congresswoman Wednesday said she was introducing a resolution calling on the U.S. Congress to denounce the practice.

November 28, 2012
** FILE ** Dr. Thomas R. Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testifies on Capitol Hill in this Nov. 4, 2009, file photo. (The Washington Times)

CDC: Youths make up in 1 in 4 new HIV cases

Teens and young adults now account for more than a quarter of the new cases of HIV identified in the United States annually, and a clear majority of those cases involve young gay or bisexual men, the federal government said in a major new survey Tuesday.

November 27, 2012
Liberty Counsel, led by founder and chairman Mathew D. Staver, has asked the Supreme Court to review a N.J. case that upheld a law banning so-called "gay conversion" therapy for minors. (Associated Press) **FILE**

‘New life’ for Liberty U. health care lawsuit

A Christian university's lawsuit against the Obama administration's health care law must be heard by a federal appellate court so its issues can be resolved properly, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

November 26, 2012
This undated image provided by Bedsider.org shows a package of estrogen/progestin birth control pills. (AP Photo/Bedsider.org)

Younger teens may get birth control pill

Pediatricians should actively counsel teens about "emergency contraception" and even provide them with prescriptions or products ahead of time, to ensure they have the pills if they need them, the American Academy of Pediatrics says in a policy statement released online Monday.

November 26, 2012
FILE - This June 27, 2012 file photo shows a patient using an oral test for HIV, inside the HIV Testing Room at the Penn Branch of the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles, in southeast Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Task force advises additional HIV tests

All Americans aged 15 to 65 should be screened for HIV at least once, even if they don't appear to be at risk for the disease, an independent advisory panel said in draft recommendations released Monday.

November 19, 2012
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, New York Democrat (Associated Press) **FILE**

Veteran lawmaker: Contraception a human right

The newly re-elected Obama administration should promote contraception as a human right, domestically and throughout the world, a veteran House member said Wednesday as a new report on global family-planning was released.

November 14, 2012
**FILE** The popular HIV-fighting pill Truvada can help healthy people avoid contracting the virus that causes AIDS, a federal drug panel has affirmed. (AP Photo/Gilead Sciences)

Teens born with HIV not telling partners

A significant number of sexually active U.S. teens who were born with HIV either didn't know their own status when they started having sex, or they knew it but didn't disclose it to their first sex partners, a new study says.

November 11, 2012

Values activists concede ‘bruising’

Despite their election night "bruising," social-conservative groups are counseling each other to keep the faith, prepare for another day – and "modernize" their views.

November 8, 2012

Births assisted by clinics way up

The number of babies born with the help of fertility clinics has almost tripled since 1996, but these children are also more likely than others to have difficult births because so many are born as twins or triplets, the federal government says in a report released this week.

November 1, 2012

Court won’t take up Okla. ‘personhood’ issue

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a lawsuit over an Oklahoma "personhood" amendment that sought to grant state constitutional protections to human embryos starting at conception, but pro-life advocates say the issue is far from over.

October 29, 2012